Perl Tutorial Overview
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You have exported a number of email messages to a text file. You want to extract the name of the
sender and the contents of the email, and convert it to XML format. (You intend to transform it to HTML
using XSLT.) In order to create an XML file from a text source
file, you will use a Perl program that parses the data and places it within XML tags.
- Use the Perl Package Manager
(PPM) to install a Perl module that contains code for parsing text files
containing comma-separated values.
- Open the Perl Tutorial
Project and associated files.
- Analyze parse.pl
the Perl program included in the Tutorial Project.
- Generate output
by running the program.
- Debug the program
using the Komodo debugger.
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This tutorial assumes...
- ...that you are running the Tutorial locally from within the Komodo
Help Browser. While it can be read online, the interactive functions
(such as re-sizing the workspace and creating sample projects) can only
be done from within the Komodo Help Browser.
- ...that ActivePerl build 623
or greater is installed on your system. ActivePerl is a free distribution of the core Perl language.
See Komodo's Installation Guide for configuration instructions.
- ...that you have a connection to the internet.
- ...that you are interested in Perl. You don't need to have previous knowledge of Perl; the tutorial will walk you through
a simple program and suggest some resources for further information.
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